Socket-board for reed-organs



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Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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No. 352,129. Patented Nov. 9, V1886.

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JACOB IIESSLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SOCKET-BOARD FOR REED-ORGANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,129, dated November 9, 1886,

Application mea .rune 13,1885. semi No. 107,577.r (no modem To LZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J neon HEssLna, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Iliinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Socket-Boards for Reed-Organs, of which the following is a specification.

In the present construction of reed-organs the great majority of the reed-cells are cut horizontally in what 'are called socket-boards, and those of them which do not exceed in width the width of the keys forming the key-board are arranged in the order of the scale directly under the keys, so that each cell will register with that one of the keys by which it is sounded. This arrangement simplifies the aetion to the utmost, the tracker-pins being directly under the keys, so as to be depressed when the latter are struck. Vith those cells, however, which require to be made wider than the keys to enable them to take in wider reedssuch, for instance, as are required for the subbass-it has heretofore been found impossible, by reason of their increased width, to place them under their sounding-keys, and iu order to find the room necessary for them it has become customary to form them in a separate board from that employed with the regular width cells, and to place such board upon a remote portion of the sounding-board. The most commen way has been also to form them in the vertical positiomwith their controllingvalves-at the top. Being located at a considerable remove from the keys, the valve-operating action or mechanism is made to spread or radiate from the keys to the cells somewhat in the fashion of a fan, to accommodate the increase in width of the cells. This of course requires a comparatively complicated mechanism, and much increases the power required at the hand ofthe player over that required in playing the other parts of the instrument; or,

again, as in another well-known construction,

the sub-bass reeds were placed in cells in a separate board over the reed-board, and so that the plane of their vibration was in the direction ofthe length of the instrument, and by arranging the reeds so as to alternate back and forth, so that the first reed of the first series or set emptiesits air into the resonant cell from the back side, and the second one from the front,- an increased space in a limited desufficient height to perm-it the formation of 6o cells in the vertical position, and of sufficient width to allow their being located one behind or partially behind an other,in successive steps, wherein thereeds vibrate in substantially vertical planes which are ranged from front to back of the instrument, substantially as set forth more fully below.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan, and Fig. 2 a bottom, view of that portion of the board containing the wide reedcells. Fig. 3 is a partial section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 a section upon the line4 4 of Fig. l. Fig. 5 shows the regular reed-cells mounted upon the sounding-board, and Fig. o is a bottom view of the same portion of the sounding-board. Fig. 7 is a sec tion on the line 7 7 of Fig. 5.'

In said drawings, A represents the sounding-board of a cabinet-organ7 and c the usual openings therein beneath the reed-cells, closed by valves (not shown) in the usual manner.

These valves are opened bythe ordinary tracker-pins passing through openings b, and both valves and openings correspond in position and number with the keys ofthe manual, not only in those portions of the instrument which have heretofore corresponded, but also in the sub-bass portieri to which my invention relates.

B represents the sub-bass portion ofthe reedboard, having cut therein vertical cells C c, for the wide reeds D. The passages d connect these cells with the valve-openings a.

The reeds are placed in the cells transversely of the board-that is, with their edges to the front and rear-#that portion ofthe cells marked C being upon the outlet side of the reed, and the part c upon the inlet side thereof. The passage d opens into the side C and is narrowed to the width of the valve-slot ct,"as indicated in Fig. 6. In order that `these cells may register directly with their keys and occupy no more space laterally than do the latter, or, in other words, in order that the cells may be arranged in the same scale-space with the keys,

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I place or step them in different longitudinal rows, from 'front to back, as illustrated. rlhns each two adjacent cells lie in different longitudinal planes, but in such a manner that the l -board connecting with them are uniform in character with those required for the other paris of the instrument.

lVith this invention it becomes possible to place the sub-bass cells in the same position on the board which they would occupy if they were ol the regular width, and immediately under their respective keys, and also to operate them from the same openings a and bythe saine tracker-pins which are used with the regular width reeds e, in the socket part E. (See Figs. 5 and 6.) F and Gindieate socketpieces, containing still other sets of reeds, f g, running upward from the sub-bass board B.

The reeds are wholly omitted from Fig. 7, and some of them from Fig. 3.

I claim- 1. A socket-board for reed-organs, having sub-bass reeds vibrating at right angles with the regular scale-reeds in planes ranged from front to back of instrument, substantially as specified.

2. Asocket-board for reed-organs,having the usual valve-openings, provided with a chamber divided into two parts, C c, by a reed, D, vibrating in a plane parallel to the longitudinal sides of the regular valveslots, substan tially as specified.

3. A soeket-board provided with a series of vertical valve-cells arranged in longitudinal rows from front to rear, wherein each succesnieate with the next valve-opening, and provided with reeds vibrating in planes parallel to the longitudinal sides of the valve-slots, substantially as specified.

JACOB HESSLER.

Vitnesses:

EDW. S. Emafrs, Jas. J. BAUR.

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